Lovechild follows staff in the Literary Kings Cross Hospital and the Crazy streets of Darlinghurst's lives in the 1960s. Joan Miller is really a complex and intelligent midwife who returns home to choose a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. Doctor Patrick McNaughton is a charismatic head of obstetrics at Kings Cross Hospital. Frances Bolton may be the difficult matron who controls the running of Stanton House, a home for unwed ladies that are pregnant.